On April 25, 2018, the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense invited PGS President, Mr. Ken Luongo, to provide his comments and recommendations on "Transnational Biological Threats and Global Security." In his remarks, Mr. Luongo indicated that infectious diseases and pandemics are the most immediate danger we continue to face from biological threats. Unfortunately,…
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PRESS RELEASE: PGS Joins Call for Pragmatic Nuclear Agreement with Saudi Arabia
Washington, D.C. – April 25, 2018 – The Partnership for Global Security (PGS), a leading policy and research organization with a history of offering innovative solutions to global nuclear security challenges, today announced it has joined a group of prominent, bipartisan non-proliferation advocates in calling for a pragmatic agreement with Saudi Arabia to develop its…
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MISSING THE BIG PICTURE ON NUCLEAR SECURITY
Since 9/11, the focus of nuclear security has been on eliminating and protecting weapon usable materials to prevent nuclear terrorism. But, as former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell has noted, while “we were trying to protect the country from terrorists, we became blind to what was going on in the rest of the world.” This also…
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NUCLEAR POWER AND GLOBAL SECURITY
The geopolitical importance of nuclear power is multifaceted and underappreciated. Influence of international reactor sales; maintenance of a strong, innovative industrial and employee base; and low carbon attributes of nuclear power are assets for U.S. global policy making. Nuclear supplier-recipient relationships can last 100 years. Critical U.S. naval force projection vessels are dependent on nuclear…
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